In all seriousness I would give them a management position.
You'd want to adjust their hairstyle first. Upswept from either temple into two little points above the ears would work nicely.
Someone who can think outside the box, try out new ideas, think for themselves, not afraid of trying something new even if its in an area outside their expertise,
...and ignore any useful suggestions from people who have got some expertise in that area.
recognize when they make mistakes and have the integrity to admit it.
Sorry? This from the person who went from insulting anyone who didn't share his obvious mistake, to saying "It seems you may be right", to avoiding any comment on the issue whatsoever in a transparently obvious attempt to pretend it didn't exist?
Which traffic arm is which, Mobertermy? How many more pages before you even mention them? And how many, after that, before you admit you've mixed them up? Or would you rather just run away and talk about guard rail posts, or some other variant on the same mistake.
Yup...management. The opposite of that person is someone who lacks creativity, needs to be told what to do, is unaware when they make mistakes, but probably won't make many anyways because they are uninterested or scared to try something new, and even if they did probably wouldn't float their ideas to the team because they are afraid of being negatively judged.
And, of course, everybody is one or the other in your world, right?
I'm not saying I haven't seen a lot of people like you in management; people who make pronouncements on any half-baked and uninformed thought that enters their heads, browbeats and insults anyone who disagrees with them, then change the subject when the sheer weight of expertise ranged against them makes it undeniable that they've based an entire course of action on the product of their own ignorance, usually so that they can repeat the same mistakes in a slightly different area. But perhaps their biggest mental error is that they mistake novelty for merit, though usually solely where their own ideas are concerned.
Dave